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Don't buy real estate in Los Angeles, California!

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I don’t know about you, but the thought of earthquakes, droughts, floods, tsunamis, mudslides, sinkholes, and wildfires scare me beyond belief.  If I could choose anywhere in the United States to buy a home, the place I would avoid the most would be Los Angeles, California.  The city has experienced more of these kinds of natural disasters than I can even comprehend.   The San Andreas and San Jacinto Faults run through Riverside County, among MANY others, which makes earthquakes a common place “thing” to happen in the city of LA.   (http://www.lamag.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2014/04/quakez_s.jpg) Mapreport.com shows all of the natural disasters that have happened in California in a timeline form.  It also includes disasters such as airplane crashes, environmental spills, and health disasters like a breakout of Mumps.  Oh my gosh!  I don’t think I will ever go to LA again!  There are so many people living in the area and with such ...
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Sinkholes

I am not sure about you, but the thought of sinkholes really freaks me out!  As I watched the CNN video clip, I was again shocked at the depth and magnitude of the sinkhole the news anchor was standing in (CNN, 2013)!  It was massive!  Sinkholes can be caused either by the deterioration of the rock structure underneath the earth, or can be caused by man.  The Hyndman text describes sinkhole formation as land being over a limestone structure.  When that ground over top of the structure collapses, that is when a sinkhole is formed (Hyndman, 2017).  Natural sinkholes can either be caused by erosion, or deterioration.  The deterioration is caused most often by water dissolving the different rocks such as limestone, carbonate rocks, or salt beds as the level of groundwater progresses and regresses (Perlman, 2016).  When there is excessive rainfall, the water absorbing into the ground aquifers becomes acidic as it passes through decaying material (Rink...
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